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LETTER 



FROM 

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GEORGE PEABODY, ESQ 



TO 



THE TRUSTEES 



FOR THE 



ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INSTITUTE 



IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. 



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BALTIMORE: 
PRINTED BY JOHN D. TOY. 



1857. 



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LETTER 



Baltimore, February 12th , 1857. 



Gentlemen: 



In pursuance of a purpose long entertained by 
me, and which I communicated to some of you 
more than two years ago, I have determined, with- 
out further delay, to establish and endow an In- 
stitute in this City, which, I hope, may become 
useful towards the improvement of the moral and 
intellectual culture of the inhabitants of Baltimore, 
and, collaterally to those of the State ; and, also, 
towards the enlargement and diffusion of a taste 
for the Fine Arts. 

My wishes, in regard to the scope and character 
of this Institute, are known to some of you through 
a personal communication of my purpose. In the 
sequel of this letter I shall further advert to that 
subject. 



In presenting to you the object I propose, I wish 
you to understand that the details proper to its 
organization and government and its future con- 
trol and conduct, I submit entirely to your judg- 
ment and discretion ; and the perpetuity of that 
control I confide to you, and your successors, 
to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this 
letter. 

I request you to accept this trust as my friends, 
amongst whom, I hope there will ever be found 
the utmost harmony and concert of action, in all 
that relates to the achievement of the good which 
it is my aim to secure to the City. 

You and your successors will constitute forever 
a Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be 
maintained in perpetual succession, for the accom- 
plishment, preservation and supervision of the 
purposes for which the Institute is to be estab- 
lished. To you and your successors, therefore, I 
hereby give full and exclusive power to do whatso- 
ever you may deem most advisable, for the founda- 
tion, organization and management of the pro- 
posed Institute : and to that end I give to you, and 
will place at your disposal, to be paid to you as 
you may require, for the present, three hundred 



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thousand dollars, to be expended by yon in such 
manner as you may determine to be most conducive 
to the effective and early establishment and future 
maintenance and support of such an Institute as 
you may deem best adapted to fulfil my intentions 
as expressed in this letter. 

In the general scheme and organization of the 
Institute, I wish it to provide — 

First. — For an extensive Library to be well fur- 
nished in every department of knowledge, and of 
the most approved literature ; which is to be main- 
tained for the free use of all persons who may de- 
sire to consult it, and be supplied with every proper 
convenience for daily reference and study, within 
appointed hours of the week days of every year. 
It should consist of the best works on every subject 
embraced within the scope of its plan, and as com- 
pletely adapted, as the means at your command 
may allow, to satisfy the researches of students 
who may be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge 
not ordinarily attainable in the private libraries of 
the country. It should be guarded and preserved 
from abuse, and rendered efficient for the purposes 
I contemplate in its establishment, by such regu- 
lations as the judgment and experience of the Trus- 



tees may adopt "or approve. I recommend, in ref- 
erence to such regulations, that it shall not be con- 
structed upon the plan of a circulating library; 
and that the books shall not be allowed to be taken 
out of the building, except in very special cases, 
and in accordance with rules adapted to them as 
exceptional privileges. 

Second. — I desire that ample provision and ac- 
commodation be made for the regular periodical 
delivery, at the proper season in each year, of lec- 
tures by the most capable and accomplished scholars 
and men of science, within the power of the Trus- 
tees to procure. These lectures should be directed 
to instructions in science, art and literature. 
They should be established with such regulations 
as, in the judgment of the Trustees, shall be most 
effectual to secure the benefits expected from them ; 
and should, under proper arid necessary restrictions 
adapted to preserve good order and guard against 
abuse, be open to the resort of the respectable in- 
habitants, of both sexes, of the City and State: 
such prices of admission being required as may 
serve to defray a portion of the necessary expenses 
of maintaining the lectures without impairing their 
usefulness to the community. 



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In connection with this provision, I desire that 
the Trustees, in order to encourage and reward 
merit, should adopt a regulation by which a number 
of the graduates of the public High Schools of the 
City, not exceeding fifty of each sex, in each year, 
who shall have obtained, by their proficiency in 
their studies and their good behavior, certificates of 
merit from the Commissioners or superintending 
authorities of the Schools to which they may be at- 
tached, may, by virtue of such certificates, be en- 
titled, as an honorary mark of distinction, to free 
admission to the lectures for one term or season 
after obtaining the certificates. 

I also desire that, for the same purpose of en- 
couraging merit, the Trustees shall make suitable 
provision for an annual grant of twelve hundred 
dollars; of which five hundred shall be distributed 
every year, in money prizes, graduated according 
to merit, of sums of not less than fifty dollars, nor 
more than one hundred for each prize, to be given 
to such graduates of the public Male High Schools 
now existing or which may hereafter be established, 
as shall, in each year, upon examination and certi- 
ficate of the School Commissioners, or other per- 
sons having the chief superintendence of the same, 



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be adjudged most worthy, from their fidelity to 
their studies, their attainments, their moral deport- 
ment, their personal habits of cleanliness and 
propriety of manners : the sum of two hundred 
dollars to be appropriated to the purchase, in every 
year, of gold medals of two degrees, of which ten 
shall be of the value of ten dollars each, and twenty 
of the value of five dollars each, to be annually dis- 
tributed to the most meritorious of the graduating 
classes of the public Female High Schools ; these 
prizes to be adjudged for the same merit, and under 
the like regulations, as the prizes to be given to the 
graduates of the Male High Schools. The remain- 
ing five hundred dollars to be, in like manner, dis- 
tributed in money prizes, as provided above for the 
graduates of the Male High School, in the same 
amounts respectively, to the yearly graduates in the 
School of Design attached to the Mechanics Institute 
of this City. To render this annual distribution of 
prizes effective to the end I have in view, I desire that 
the Trustees shall digest, propose, and adopt all 
such rules and provisions, and procure the corres- 
pondent regulations on the part of the public in- 
stitutions referred to, as they may deem necessary 
to accomplish the object. 



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Third — I wish, also, that the Institute shall 
embrace within its plan an Academy of Music, 
adapted, in the most effective manner, to diffuse 
and cultivate a taste for that, the most refining of 
all the arts. By providing a capacious and suit- 
ably furnished saloon, the facilities necessary to 
the best exhibitions of the art, the means of study- 
ing its principles and practising its compositions, 
and periodical concerts, aided by the best talent 
and most eminent skill within their means to pro- 
cure, the Trustees may promote the purpose to 
which I propose to devote this department of the 
Institute. They will make all such regulations 
as, in their judgment, are most likely to render the 
Academy of Music the instrument of permanent 
good to the society of this city. As it will neces- 
sarily incur considerable expense for its support, 
I desire that it may be, in part, sustained by such 
charges for admission to its privileges as the Trus- 
tees may consider proper, and, at the same time, 
compatible with my design to render it useful to 
the community. And I suggest for their conside- 
ration the propriety of regulating the conditions of 
an annual membership of the Academy, as well as 
the terms of occasional admission to the saloon — if 



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they should consider it expedient at any time to 
extend the privilege of admission beyond the 
number of those who may be enrolled as mem- 
bers. 

Fourth — I contemplate with great satisfaction, 
as an auxiliary to the improvement of the taste, 
and, through it, the moral elevation of the charac- 
ter of the society of Baltimore, the establishment 
of a Gallery of Art in the department of Paint- 
ing and Statuary. It i% therefore, my wish that 
such a gallery should be included in the plan of 
the Institute, and that spacious and appropriate 
provision be made for it. It should be supplied, 
to such an extent as may be practicable, with the 
works of the best masters, and be placed under 
such regulations as shall secure free access to it, 
during stated periods of every year, by all orderly 
and respectable persons who may take an interest 
in works of this kind ; and particularly that, under 
wholesome restraints to preserve good order and 
decorous deportment, it may be rendered instruc- 
tive to artists in the pursuit of their peculiar stu- 
dies and in affording them opportunity to make 
drawings and copies from the works it may con- 
tain. 



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As annual or periodical Exhibitions of Paintings 
and Statuary are calculated, in my opinion, to 
afford equal gratification and instruction to the 
community, and may serve to supply a valuable 
fund for the enrichment of the gallery, I suggest 
to the Trustees the establishment of such Exhibi- 
tions, as far as they may find it practicable from 
the resources within their reach. 

Lastly. — I desire that ample and convenient ac- 
commodation may be made in the building of the 
Institute for the use of the Maryland Historical 
Society, of which I am and have long been a mem- 
ber. It is my wish that that Society should per- 
manently occupy its appropriate rooms as soon as 
they are provided, and should, at the proper time 
when this can be done, be appointed by the Trus- 
tees to be the guardian and protector of the pro- 
perty of the Institute ; and that, if it accept this 
duty and, in conformity with my wish, shall remove 
into and take possession of the apartments designed 
for its use, it shall also be requested and empow- 
ered to assume the management and administra- 
tion of the operations of the several departments as 
the same shall be established and organized by the 
Trustees. That it shall, at a proper time in every 



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year, appoint from its own members appropriate 
and efficient Committees, to be charged respectively 
with, the arrangement and direction of the opera- 
tions and conduct of each department in the func- 
tions assigned to each by the Trustees. That, in 
the performance of these duties, it shall keep in 
view the purposes which it is my aim to promote; 
give due attention to the details necessary to ac- 
complish them, and adopt suitable measures to 
execute the plan of organization made by the 
Trustees and carry into full and useful effect my 
intentions as disclosed in this letter. 

The Trustees, after the Historical Society shall 
have accepted these duties, shall, nevertheless, pos- 
sess a full and complete visitatorial power over the 
proceedings of the Society touching the subjects I 
have confided to the Board. To guard against any 
misapprehension which might lead to a conflict 
between these bodies, I beg it to be understood that, 
in this arrangement, I intend the power of the 
Board to be adapted to the organization and gene- 
ral direction of the departments, and that of the 
Society to their operations and conduct in confor- 
mity with such organization and general direction. 
I hope that the Board of Trustees and the Society 



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will always act in the discharge of the functions I 
have assigned to them respectively, with a liberal 
spirit of concert and co-operation and with a har- 
monious and united determination to render the 
Institute an agency of enduring benefit to the com- 
munity in which it is placed. 

If there he any legal incapacity in the Maryland 
Historical Society to assume and perform the duties 
which it is my wish it should undertake, the 
trustees will be careful to wait until that impedi- 
ment is removed, by the grant of proper power to 
that end by the Legislature, before they commit 
these duties to that body. And if, at any time 
hereafter, that Society should become extinct, it 
will be the duty of the Trustees then existing to 
assume to themselves the ministration and manage- 
ment of the several departments of the Institute 
in the details I have here assigned to the care of 
the Society. 

The Trustees will make such provision out of 
the monies I have now placed at their disposal, 
and out of such as I may hereafter give them, as 
may be necessary for the purchase of the ground 
and the erection of the building for the Institute ; 
and will also, in due time, make all suitable pro- 



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vision for the investment of the several funds 
required for the repair, preservation and insurance 
of the building and other property connected with 
it ; for its fuel, lighting and furniture ; for the ser- 
vice of the Library and apartments belonging to 
it ; for the yearly purchase of books ; for the ser- 
vice, management and expense of the Lecture 
Department ; for the charges and support of the 
Academy of Music ; for the support, maintenance 
and gradual increase of the Gallery of Art ; for 
the supply of the yearly prizes to the graduates of 
the High Schools, and the School of Design ; and 
for all proper, contingent or incidental expenses of 
the Institute, in whatever branch the same may be 
needed. In the performance of this duty, I wish 
them to make a specific designation of the fund 
appropriated, from time to time, to each depart- 
ment, as well as of that for the general service of 
all ; and that these several appropriations be made 
in such proportions as the necessities of each de- 
partment may require and the means at the dis- 
posal of the Trustees may allow. And it is also 
my wish, in connection with this subject of the 
funds I have directed to be supplied, that they, 
as well as whatever I may hereafter supply, shall 



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always be held under the control and guardian- 
ship of the Trustees, in conformity with such 
regulations as they may adopt for their preserva- 
tion, appropriation and investment, from time to 
time, in the administration of the trust. And that, 
when the Maryland Historical Society shall assume 
the management of the departments as I have men- 
tioned above, the Trustees shall put at their dis- 
posal, in each year, the amount they shall have 
appropriated for each service, as hereinbefore re- 
quired, to be disbursed by the Society according 
to its appointed destination. 

These, gentlemen, are the general instructions 
I have to impart to you for your guidance in the 
laborious duties I have committed to your care. 
You will perceive that my design is to establish an 
Institute which shall, in some degree, administer 
to the benefit of every portion of the community of 
Baltimore : which shall supply the means of pur- 
suing the acquirement of knowledge, and the study 
of art to every emulous student of either sex, who 
may be impelled by the laudable desire of improve- 
ment to seek it : which shall furnish incentives to 
the ambition of meritorious youth in the Public 
Schools, and in that useful School of Design under 



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the charge of the Mechanics Institute, by providing 
for those who excel, a reward, which, I hope, will 
be found to be, not only a token of honorary dis- 
tinction, but also a timely contribution towards the 
means of the worthy candidate who shall win it, for 
the commencement of a successful career in life: 
which shall afford opportunity to those whom for- 
tune has blessed with leisure, to cultivate those 
kindly and liberalizing arts, that embellish the 
character by improving the perception of the beau- 
tiful and the true, and which, by habituating the 
mind to the contemplation of the best works of 
genius, render it more friendly and generous to- 
wards the success of deserving artists in their early 
endeavors after fame. 

For the fulfilling and preserving of the trust I 
have confided to you, my wish is that you, gentle- 
men, or as many of you as may accept this appoint- 
ment, will meet together, at as early a day as may 
be convenient for you, and take such measures for 
your own organization and government as you 
may find necessary, making a record of your ac- 
ceptance and of all proceedings you may adopt. 
That if your full number of twenty-five should be 
rendered incomplete by the refusal of any of you 



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to accept the appointment, you will, as soon as 
practicable, rill the same by the selection of the 
necessary number from a list of two hundred names 
selected from the ranks of your most worthy fellow 
citizens, which I herewith furnish you, and which 
list I desire you to enter upon your record for future 
use. 

I also desire and request that if, at any time 
hereafter during the life of the present generation, 
vacancies should occur in your number of twenty- 
five, by death, resignation, incapacity to serve or 
removal from the State, you and your successors 
shall fill such vacancies, by judicious selection from 
the list above mentioned of such person or persons 
therein named as may then be living and may be 
qualified, "by capacity and good standing in the com- 
munity, to perform the duties required ; and when, 
in after time, this generation shall have passed 
away, I desire that your succession may be pre- 
served by the appointment to vacant places in your 
Board of such of your sons, or the sons of those on 
the list I have given you, as may then be accessi- 
ble to the choice of your successors and may be 
worthy, from their personal qualifications and good 
repute in Baltimore, to assume the charge of the In- 



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stitute. And, finally, when these sources shall fail, 
I desire that the succession in the Board of Trus- 
tees shall be ever maintained by the careful selec- 
tion, from time to time, of such eminent and capable 
citizens of Baltimore, as may be willing to admin- 
ister to the service of this community, by the de- 
votion of a portion of their time to a work which, 
I earnestly hope, may be found to be, both in the 
influence of its example and in the direct adminis- 
tration of its purpose, a long, fruitful, and pros- 
perous benefaction to the good people of Baltimore. 
I must not omit to impress upon you a sugges- 
tion for the government of the Institute, which I 
deem to be of the highest moment and which I 
desire shall be ever present to the view of the 
Board of Trustees. My earnest wish to promote, 
at all times, a spirit of harmony and good will 
in society ; my aversion to intolerance, bigotry and 
party rancor, and my enduring respect and love 
for the happy institutions of our prosperous re- 
public, impel me to express the wish that the In- 
stitute I have proposed to you, shall always be 
strictly guarded against the possibility of being 
made a theatre for the dissemination or discussion 
of sectarian theology or party politics ; that it 



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shall never minister, in any manner whatever, to 
political dissension, to infidelity, to visionary the- 
ories of a pretended philosophy which may be 
aimed at the subversion of the approved morals of 
society ; that it shall never lend its aid or influence 
to the propagation of opinions tending to create or 
encourage sectional jealousies in our happy country, 
or which may lead to the alienation of the people 
of one State or section of the Union from those of 
another. But that it shall be so conducted, through- 
out its whole career, as to teach political and re- 
ligious charity, toleration and beneficence, and 
prove itself to be, in all contingencies and condi- 
tions, the true friend of our inestimable Union, of 
the salutary institutions of free government, and 
of liberty* regulated by law. I enjoin these pre- 
cepts upon the Board of Trustees and their succes- 
sors forever, for their invariable observance and 
enforcement in the administration of the duties I 
have confided to them. 

And now, in conclusion, I have only to express 
my wish, that, in providing for the building 
you are to erect, you will allow space for future 
additions in case they may be found necessary, 
and that in its plan, style of architecture, and 



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adaptation to its various uses, it may be worthy of 
the purpose to which it is dedicated, and may serve 
to embellish a City whose prosperity, I trust, will 
ever be distinguished by an equal growth in know- 
ledge and virtue. 

I am, with great respect, 

Your friend, 

GEOKGE PEABODY. 



To 



Wm, E. Mayhew, 
John P. Kennedy, 
Chas. J. M. Eaton, 
Thomas Swann, 
George Brown, • 
John B. Morris, 
S. wings Hoffman, 
G. W. Burnap, 
Wm. H. D. C. Wright, 
Josias Pennington, 
Wm. McKim, 
David S. Wilson, 
John M. Gordon, 



Saml. W. Smith, 
Chauncy Brooks, 
Wm. F. Murdoch, 
Enoch Pratt, 
J. Mason Campbell, 
Geo. W. Brown, 
Galloway Cheston, 
Geo. P. Tiffany, 
Wm. Prescott Smith, 
Chas. Bradenbaugh, 
Edw. M. Greenway, Jr. 
Wm. C. Shaw. 



APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS 

TO FILL VACANCIES REFERRED TO 
IN THE FOREGOING LETTER. 



Baltimore, February \Uh, 1857. 

Gentlemen: 

In the organization of the Institute to be estab- 
lished in this City, in conformity with a plan 
adopted by me, I have confided its government to 
a Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be 
preserve/l in constant and perpetual succession by 
their own selection and appointment. And as from 
the nature of the duties required of them, they are 
necessarily limited within a compass which excludes 
a large number of those whom I should be glad to 
interest in the success of the undertaking, I have 
thought I might, in some degree, assure myself of 
this advantage, by placing in the hands of the 
Board of Trustees, the names of two hundred citi- 
zens, selected from the most worthy and intelligent 



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of this City, comprised of many whom it has been 
my good fortune, in time past, to rank amongst 
my intimate personal friends, several of the sons 
of my old associates now gone, and a still greater 
number of distinguished members of this commu- 
nity, with whom, from my long residence abroad, 
I have been denied the pleasure of intimate ac- 
quaintance. 

These names have been communicated to the 
Trustees in a list for record, to be preserved by 
them for the purpose, so long as it may present 
persons qualified to perform the trust, of supply- 
ing the means of selection of the best citizens for 
such vacancies as must occur in the Board. 

I venture to assure myself, gentlemen, that you 
will allow your names to be retained on that list 
for the contingency I have contemplated, and that 
you will regard this appeal to your aid, in that 
contingency, as a proof of my respect for the 
position you hold in the confidence of this com- 
munity. 

With the highest esteem, I am, Gentlemen, 
Your humble Servant, 

GEOKGE PEABODY. 



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To Messrs. 
Andrew Aldridge, 
Augustus J. Albert, 
Wm. J. Albert, 
A. S. AMI, 
Wm. Stuart Appleton, 
John H. Alexander, 
Rev. J. C. Backus, 
Eev. L. P. Balch, 
F. W. Brune, 
J. N. Bonaparte, 
Dr. John Buckler, 
Dr. T. H. Buckler, 
Elisha N. Browne, 
Robert P. Brown, 
William Bose, 
R. J. Baker, 
Samuel M. Barry, 
Dr. Thos. E. Bond, 
N. C. Brooks, 
James Birckliead, 
Hugh Birckhead, 
Robert D. Brown, 
J. G. Bathurst, 
B. C. Barroll, 
William Cooke, 
John Clark, 
Charles Carroll, of C. 



Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, 
Dr. F. E. Chatard, 
Joseph Cushing, Jr. 
Charles R. Carroll, 
J. I. Cohen, Jr. 
Geo. B. Coale, 
Dr. Samuel Chew, 
Rev. A„ C. Coxe, 
Jacob G. Davies, 
J. J. Donaldson, 
John S. Donnell, 
James Donnell, 
Geo. W. Dobbin, 
Grafton L. Dulaney, 
Thomas Donaldson, 
Austin Dall, 
H. Winter Davis, 
Basil T. Elder, 
Geo. N. Eaton, 
Hugh W. Evans, 
Hooper C. Eaton, 
Wm. M. Ellicott, 
Hugh Davy Evans, 
Rev. Alexius J. Elder, 
James I. Fisher, 
Dr. Charles Frick, 
Wm. F. Frick, 



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Rev. Richard Fuller, 
E. S. Frey, 
John Gibson, i 
S. K. George, 
Geo. K. Gaither, 
K. Gilmor, Jr. 
Wrn. F. Giles, 
Dr. Geo. S. Gibson, 
William Gill, 
Geo. M. Gill, 
Hugh Gelston, 
James George, 
Wm. H. Graham, 
Wm. Gilmor, 
W. W. Glenn, 
Henry Garrett, 
John Garrett, 
John S. Gittings, 
Lambert Gittings, 
Alex. B. Gordon, 
Patrick Gibson, 
John Henderson, 
Geo. B. Hoffman, 
Wm. H. Hoffman, 
Benj. C. Howard, 
J. Morrison Harris, 
Johns Hopkins, 
Wm. Taylor Hall, 



John E. Howard, 
Edward Otis Hinckley, 
Charles Hinckley, 
Charles Howard, 
George L. Harrison, 
Wm. G. Harrison, 
R. M. Hare, 
Geo. C. Irwin, 
Reverdy Johnson, 
Rev. H. V. D. Johns, 
Reverdy Johnson, Jr. 
Hugh Jenkins, 
Wilmot Johnson, 
Dr. Christo. Johnston, 
Joseph King, Jr. 
Wm. H. Keighler, 
Anthony Kennedy, 
Charles M. Keyser, 
Edward Kemp, 
Dandridge Kennedy, 
J. H. B. Latrobe, 
Alex. Lorman, 
Alonzo Lilly, 
G. W. Lurman, 
Wm. P. Lemmon, 
Thos. W. Levering, 
Wm. F. Lucas, 
B. H. Latrobe, 



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Richard Lemmon, 
Robert Leslie, 
Jonathan Meredith, 
Samuel Manning, 
Wm. E. Mayhew, Jr. 
Thomas H. Morris, 
Charles F. Mayer, 
Isaac Munroe, 
Robert Mickle, 
Charles Marean, 
Rev. J. a. Morris, 
Brantz Mayer, 
Wm. D. Miller, 
Henry May, 
R. N. Martin, 
N. H. Morison, 
Dr. J. H. McCulloh, 
Louis McLane, 
Hazlitt McKim, 
Robert McKim, 
Dr. John P. Mackenzie. 
J. V. L. McMahon, 
James McHenry, 
Ramsay McHenry, 
Richard Norris, 
J. Spear Nicholas, 
Columbus O'Donnell, 
John F. Poor, 



Charles R. Pearce, 
Wm. C. Pennington, 
David N. Perine, 
Henry Patterson, 
Charles H. Pitts, 
Rev. G. D. Purviance, 
William H. Price, 
George W. Riggs, 
W. T. Riggs, 
John Ridgely of Hampton, 
William Geo. Read, 
Dr. A. C. Robinson, 
Henry G. Rice, 
Lloyd Rogers, 
George H. Steuart, 
J. Spear Smith, 
David Stewart, 
Albert Schumacher, 
S. F. Streeter, 
James Swan, 
D. Sprigg, 
Dr. J. A. Steuart, 
Dr. N. R. Smith, 
Archibald Sterling, 
P. H. Sullivan, 
I. Nevitt Steele, 
Comfort Tiffany, 
Joseph Taylor, 



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Philip F. Thomas, 
Philip E. Thomas, 
Dr. J. Hanson Thomas, 
Kev. 0. H. Tiffany, 
William S. Tiffany, 
George Tiffany, 
Alexander Turnbull, 
Kobert A. Taylor, 
W. A. Talbott, 
William H. Travers, 
Joshua Vansant, 
B. F. Voss, 
Henry Von Kapff, 
John C. Vanwyck, 
Amos A. Williams, 
Henry White, 
Lewin Wether ed, 
Dr. John Whitriclge, 



Henry E. Wilson, 
Rev. W. E. Wyatt, 
Robert C. Wright, 
N. F. Williams, 
William P. Whyte, 
Thomas Wilson, 
Rt. Rev. W. R. Whit- 

tingham, 
Samuel Gr. Wyman, 
8. Teackle Wallis, 
John White, 
Nathaniel Williams, 
Thomas Whitridge, 
James S. Waters, 
Thomas Winans, 
Otho H. Williams, 
William H. Young. 



LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE 



Baltimore, February l^th, 1857. 

To George Peabody, Esq. 

Sir : — The undersigned acknowledge the receipt 
of your Letter, addressed to us on twelfth of this 
month, and with a grateful sense of this evidence of 
your confidence and regard, accept the office of 
Keceivers and Dispensers of the Munificent Fund 
which you therein dedicate to the erection and 
endowment of an Institute in the City of Baltimore. 
On behalf of those for whom this great benefaction 
is designed, we offer you most cordial thanks, with 
our admiration of the noble and generous heart 
which could conceive and execute so comprehensive 
a scheme for the improvement and gratification of 
thousands unknown and unborn. We will en- 
deavor to manifest a just appreciation of our obli- 
gations to you, by prompt and unremitted efforts 



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to carry out the views and suggestions contained in 
your Letter. And we earnestly hope you may be 
permitted, for many coming years, to have the 
satisfaction of witnessing the accomplishment of all 
you propose and desire, in founding so splendid a 
monument of enlightened Philanthropy and exalted 
Patriotism. 



John M. Gordon, 
Samuel W. Smith, 
Chauncy Brooks, 
Wm. F. Murdoch, 
Enoch Pratt, 



Wm. E. Mayhew, 
John P. Kennedy, 
Chas. J. M. Eaton, 

Thomas Swann, 
George Brown, 



J. Mason Campbell, John B. Morris, 

Geo. W. Brown, S. wings Hoffman, 

Galloway Cheston, G. W. Burnap, 

Geo. P. Tiffany, Wm. H. D.C. Wright, 

Chas. Bradenbaugh, Josias Pennington, 
Edw. M. Greenway, Jr. Wm. McKim, 

Wm. C. Shaw. David S. Wilson, 



<&8s5-< 




LETTER 



FROM 



GEORGE PEABODY, ESQ 



TO 



THE TRUSTEES 



FOR THE 



ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INSTITUTE 



IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE 



BALTIMORE; 
PRINTED BY JOHN D. TOY. 

1857. . 



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